... One wheel good THE FOURTH annual Covent Gar den Juggling and Unicycling Con vention is being held in the West Piazza of Covent Garden by St Paul's Church this Sunday, May 24. ...

... PAUL'S CAT PAUL ELLIOTT is to present this year's pantomine at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Dick Whittington and his Cat, with a cast headed by Anita Harris, Ber nard Cribbins, Andrew Sachs, Glyn Owen, Edmund Hockridge, Chris Harris and Nick Wilton. It will be directed by the Theatre Royal's artistic director Roger Redfarn, with choreography by Tommy Shaw, and is being spon sored by the ...

... CONWAY'S SUNDAYS RUSS CONWAY is to appear every Sunday throughout the sea son at the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne, with an assortment of guest artists, including Dennis Lotis, Bryan Johnson and Gary Lovini. It is presented by Jordan-Ram- shaw Associates, who had a suc cessful Sunday season last year with Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr. ...

... BORGE'S BARBICAN BASH VICTOR BORGE returns for the first time since his Royal Variety Show success last year with a short tour which begins at the Barbican Centre on June 24. He goes on to Blazers, Windsor on June 26 and 27, St David's Hall, Cardiff on June 28, Fairfield Hall, Croydon (30) and Worthing Assembly Hall on July 1. The tour is under the manage ment of Tito Burns. ...

... Conference subjects announced SUBJECTS HAVE now been announced for the conference ses sions at the Entertainment and the Arts exhibition at Harrogate in November. They are: Funding of the Arts Good, Bad or Indifferent?; Profit in Public Relations and the World of Marketing; Catering and Bars In House or Privatised?; Commercial Theatre Faith Hope or Charity?; The World of Technology Can We ...

... Chubby to goon after tragedy COMEDIAN Chubby Oatcs has vowed to go on with the show despite the death of his youngest daughter. The Kent comic told panto bosses at Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre that he still intended turning up for rehearsals which began this week just a day after 13-year-old Julia's funeral. Panto boss Dave Lee said: We didn't even have to ask Chubby. He's a real pro. He ...

... Royal panto at Palace THIS year's Royal Pantomime is to be Babes in the Wood, at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. Princess Michael of Kent will attend the performance on December 17. This Royal Pantomime, the third, will be the first held outside London. Proceeds will go to the National Playing Fields Association of Great Britain. Babes in the Wood, starring Les Dawson, Ruth Madoc, John ...

... Brewers object MAGISTRATES have backed a brewery objection to a new live entertainment venue in Cumbria. Publican Robin Armstrong had ap plied for permission to open the new 70-seat facility in a building not far from his Letters Inn public house at Aspatria. But Wigton magistrates refused to grant a licence for the venue after hearing objections from brewers Jen nings. The company claimed the ...

... Sleep makes a dash for his own dance studio By ANN NUGENT WAYNE SLEEP has taken over a dance studio in South Kensington, which will give him the freedom to rehearse and mount future shows with his own dance company. He has brought Andrew Hardic studio, which was frequented by profes skmal dancers and students from lh ...

... Midland clubs go live to pull in the punters By NATASHA FIELDING PONTINS TAKEOVER PONTINS holiday camps have been sold for £57.5 million by Bass, the brewing and hotel group, to a consortium of former Pontins directors. The takeover company, Pontins Ltd, is headed by Trevor Hemmings and five other former Pontins directors, who left the company more than two years ago, and are now the proud ...

... High Places GLASGOW AS A 7:84 Scotland production, Ena Lamont Stewart's new play, premiered at the Mitchell Theatre, falls short of expectations stirred by memories of their widely acclaimed revival of her early drama, Men Must Weep, first presented in the forties. It lacks scope for the dynamic treatment of class drama which is the 7:84 hallmark. High Places is about de-humanised j living ...

... Duncan's circus dare PETER DUNCAN, of Blue Peter fame and more recently Duncan Dares, has joined Circus Senso. play ing a season at the Bloomsbury Theatre from April 28 to May 2. Another TV personality joining the troupe is Sally Dewhurst, from BBC's Lift Off and TV -ant's Are You Awake Yet?, while coming across from France with their aerial act are the Two Macadams. j ...